Bengaluru, July 16 -- A 25-year-old woman was brutally hacked to death in full public view after being dragged out of a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus at the BC Road bus stand in Dakshina Kannada district on Thursday, July 16 evening.

The deceased has been identified as Lavanya, a resident of Kakyapadavu. According to police, Lavanya was travelling in a government bus from BC Road to Kakyapadavu after work when the incident occurred.

Eyewitnesses said a young man suddenly boarded the bus, forcibly pulled Lavanya out and attacked her repeatedly with a machete-like weapon. She collapsed in a pool of blood and succumbed to her injuries on the spot. She was later shifted to the government hospital, where doctors conf...